When Dafan doesn't get the doctor's ultimate reply, she always has all kinds of fantasies. Either that will continue to hang up the doctor's appointment number the next day.

A doctor in a tertiary hospital in a provincial capital even had to tell her in the end, "Your husband is sick, even if you go to Beijing to find a big hospital, the famous doctor there will not be able to recover." ”

For a long time, Jiang Cuilian had been praying that her husband would be able to create miracles. However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. She even blamed herself that if she had found out earlier that the well-known hospitals and doctors had taken her husband there, he might have gotten better soon.

In the end, Jiang Cuilian had to move her husband home for conservative treatment! I don't know which doctor invented the medical term conservative treatment. Perhaps this term is used in the context of deadly cancer, but it can be said more tactfully and humanely about eating and drinking and waiting for death.

In fact, for a cancer patient who has even been declared conservative by doctors, being able to drag on at home for nearly a year can be said to be a miracle within a miracle.

Jiang Cuilian clearly remembers that it took 11 months from the time she brought her husband home to his death. According to the original doctor, it was a maximum of many months. If that's not a miracle, what is?

Therefore, for a long time she spent a long time in self-contradiction and comfort!

However, her biggest wish now is to pay off the nearly 110,000 foreign debts owed by her husband for treatment.

The eldest daughter, Qin Yang, asked her how much foreign debt the family owed for her father's treatment. But Jiang Cuilian never told her the truth, and she only answered vaguely every time. The reason is just so simple that she doesn't want her daughter Qin Yang to carry too much baggage.

In addition to her husband's illness and death, which was the biggest accident and change in the family, Jiang Cuilian felt 100,000 points of guilt for Qin Yang, who had excellent grades but was forced to drop out of school in the second year of high school and go to the coast to work!

Even once, she said to her daughter Qin Yang on the phone, "You don't have to send me money back in the future, your father won't need it anyway." You can save the money you earn as a dowry when you get married! ”

Although he is not very old, Qin Yang can still read his mother's guilt towards him! Therefore, she didn't have any resentment, just regret. It's only to blame poverty, Qin Yang sighed silently in his heart!

Although, she doesn't know how much foreign debt the family owes for her father's treatment. But she must have known that her mother would not approve of her withdrawal from school unless she had to. What's more, in the eyes of the teacher, she is still a good student with excellent character and learning.

Regarding the matter of dropping out of school, Qin Yang took the initiative to bring it up. She remembers that when her mother took her father to seek medical treatment, sometimes she could only give her a dozen yuan for living expenses for a week or two, and almost all of those living expenses were saved by the family's stomach scraping.

In fact, at that time, the mother still planned to hide her husband's illness from both daughters! It's just that the single medical record was accidentally discovered by Qin Yang, and she knew that she couldn't hide it anymore, so she simply told the truth

The love was told to Qin Yang. At first, it was also an agreement between her and her eldest daughter Qin Yang about hiding her husband's illness from her youngest daughter Qin Yue.

The sensible Qin Yang couldn't bear to watch his mother overwork for his father's treatment and the sisters' school expenses, so he took the initiative to withdraw from school. No matter how the head teacher does the ideological work, she is unmoved. For Jiang Cuilian, the mother at that time, it was tantamount to reaching the point of exhaustion.

Since then, the family has been empty and alone, and there is no one to talk to, and Jiang Cuilian's loneliness is increasing day by day. However, she was thinking more about when the nearly 110,000 foreign debt would be paid off.

A few acres of thin land at home, without eating or drinking all year round, can have a gross income of more than 20,000 yuan at most. Except for some food, drink and fertilizer expenses, there are not many children left.

So, in addition to planting a few acres of land at home, she also found two jobs in the town. Originally, she had been working as a dishwasher in a restaurant. The owner also liked her sloppiness and diligence very much. However, the salary of that job was too far away from her to pay off her foreign debt of nearly 110,000 yuan. It also often affects another job where she helps people make skewers, and even affects the two fat pigs that are fed at home. After these two jobs, Jiang Cuilian went home at eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening, and the two brutes had to be hungry from seven or eight o'clock in the morning until she came back from outside in the evening.

I heard that the work on the construction site paid a little more, but it was very hard, and it was all men's work. Jiang Cuilian thought about it for a while, and as soon as she gritted her teeth, she quit her two jobs as washing dishes and helping people wear skewers. Go to the construction site and get ready to work with the men.

At first, when the contractor saw her black and thin figure, the first sentence he said to her, "Sister, the bricks on our construction site, picking sand and everything is done by men, I suggest you go find a little light work!" ”

After listening to the words of the contractor, Jiang Cuilian pondered for a while and said, "Boss, I know that you are worried that our women's strength is not as strong as that of men, and our endurance is not as good as that of men." Don't worry about this, you let me try it here for three days, if you think I'm still not suitable, I don't want a penny from you, and I'll leave by myself. ”

In the end, under Jiang Cuilian's soft grinding and hard bubbles, the contractor left her. But the premise is to go to work on time at eight o'clock every morning. After Jiang Cuilian said that there was no problem, she picked up the shovel on the side and began to shovel the sand.

Her hands and feet are nimble, much faster than those big men. However, the foreman of the contractor on the side pouted disapprovingly, and secretly said in his heart, "You are a woman's family, I see how long you can last." ”

However, after half a day of observation, the contractor found that this person named Jiang Cuilian, in addition to being the only woman on the construction site, really couldn't find fault with the work or anything.

It's a really hard job. But it was able to get her home three or four hours earlier. In this way, the two fat pigs in the family will not be starved too thin.

Jiang Cuilian is very afraid of losing this hard-won job. Therefore, she said that she would start work at eight o'clock in the morning, and she arrived at the construction site at seven o'clock. She took the initiative to take the scattered broken steel bars

Pick up a pile and clean up the cement scum on the side of the road.

At 7:50, the contractor arrived at the construction site and was surprised to see Jiang Cuilian who was busy working.

Seeing the arrival of the contractor, Jiang Cuilian smiled a little embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, boss, I don't know what to do today, so I will clean up the broken steel bars and cement slag here first, so that people will not get stuck in their feet when they walk in." ”

The name of the contractor is ancient building materials. At that time, his evaluation of this woman in his heart was only three words: "It's too hard!" It was then that he dispelled the prejudice against women working on construction sites. According to his old rules, all women were not allowed to leave the construction site. In the past, in her heart, she always felt that the women who came to the construction site were not so much here to work as to cause trouble.

In the following two years, Jiang Cuilian successfully stayed on the construction site of ancient building materials.

A month later, Qin Yue's high school entrance examination results came out, and she won the second place in the county. Qin Yue's teachers couldn't help but sigh in their hearts, "If this student's family doesn't suffer, he should be a stable champion in the county high school entrance examination." After that, for several years, the name Qin Yue became an inspirational role model in this ordinary town middle school. The teachers used this as a good story to warn the students that no matter what kind of "scumbag" or how bad the foundation is, as long as they are willing to work hard and work hard, they will definitely be able to turn things around and become a top student.

When Qin Yue returned home and wanted to tell the news to her mother as soon as possible, she found that in addition to locking the door at home, she could only vaguely hear the chirping of two big fat pigs from the pigsty.

In desperation, Qin Yue had no choice but to go to the second uncle's house for dinner, and the second uncle's family only knew that her mother locked the door all day and night, and there was no shadow.

It wasn't until eight o'clock in the evening that my mother came back from the dusty construction site. When she heard Qin Yue report her results, a smile appeared on her face that she hadn't seen for a long time. She wanted to boil an egg for her daughter to celebrate. But after she rummaged through all the cabinets in the house, she couldn't find even an eggshell in the drawer. When Qin Yue asked her what she was looking for, she had to smile awkwardly and said that she was looking for her sleeves. In fact, her sleeves were worn on her arms. It's just that the construction site is so dusty that it is almost completely integrated with the clothes.

In the end, the mother and daughter looked at each other and smiled! Qin Yue took the initiative to cook green vegetable noodles for her mother and added a big spoonful of chili oil! After eating the noodles cooked by her daughter in one go, Jiang Cuilian felt very happy.

Especially when she heard her daughter say that the tuition fee for her high school was all free in the county key high school, the feeling of happiness and relief was completely indescribable.

Although there is no need to worry about tuition, the cost of living is still a lot of money. That night, Jiang Cuilian, who was lying in bed, couldn't sleep peacefully all night. As soon as the morning dawned, she went to work on the construction site again. Although Qin Yue knew that her mother's work was not easy, she hadn't even asked her mother what she was doing.

Qin Yue found that since the death of her father, the house has hardly been cleaned up

Finish. So, after feeding the two fat pigs in the house, she prepared to clean up the house.

The house at home is not big, but the house is full of the shadow of his father. In the sad place, Qin Yue sat alone on the floor of the house crying! She understands more deeply that she can no longer be the carefree little girl she was back then.

She didn't know when her mother had slept in the same bed that her father had used when he was sick. After the death of their father, the mother and daughter discussed whether to keep the bed. After all, my father had cancer. In the end, Qin Yang went to the town hospital and asked the doctor in the oncology department. The doctor told Qin Yang that there was no effect and he could keep it and continue to use it. Eventually, the mother and daughter all decided to keep the bed.

The lids of bottles and kettles on the table are crooked! Qin Yue arranged them neatly one by one.

There was a drawer under the table, and Qin Yue didn't know why she had opened that small drawer by mistake. The most important thing is that she also found the little book that she was crooked about.

She thought it was her sister or her homework book when she first entered elementary school. But when she opened the small notebook, she found that there were still a bunch of accounts recorded crookedly. These accounts were all foreign debts that her mother had lent to her father for medical treatment, especially when her eyes swept to the six-figure sum, she was completely dumbfounded!

(End of chapter)

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